Rapid Cycling Brassica Investigations
Jeffery Gray
Abstract:
Rapid-cycling brassicas has been used by researchers because of traits that make it convenient to study such as: short life cycle, rapid flowering time and seed maturation, small size, and ability to grow under 24 hour fluorescent
light, etc... These traits make RCBr's valuable laboratory models for students to study inheritance and selection along with evolution. Trichome/hairs on plants are extremely variable in their presence across species, location on plant organs, density, and therefore functionality The investigation conducted supports the hypothesis that trichrome number is a heritable trait that can be artificially selected for by breeding two select populations of RCBr's with one another.
introduction
Rapid-cycling populations of important species in the genus Brassica have unusual potential for resolving many problems in plant biology and for use in education. Rapid-cycling Brassicas......
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